Strange errors running gcc tests on Cygwin
David Billinghurst
dbcygwin@gmail.com
Sun Mar 5 11:08:00 GMT 2017
On 5/03/2017 18:36, Daniel Santos wrote:
> Is this a documentation error then? (from
> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html)
>
> The LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable is used by the Cygwin
> function
> dlopen () as a list of directories to search for .dll files to
> load. This
> environment variable is converted from Windows format to UNIX
> format when a
> Cygwin process first starts. Most Cygwin applications do not make
> use of
> the dlopen () call and do not need this variable.
No.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is used by dlopen ().
PATH is one of the locations searched by Windows when starting
applications, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7d83bc18.aspx
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